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AXIALL / LOTTE
Groundbreaking ceremony for Louisiana ethane cracker / Start-up expected in 2019
17.06.2016
NOVA CHEMICALS
Additional LLDPE plant in Canada to start up in Q4 / Corunna cracker switches to shale gas
15.06.2016
FRANCE
Situation on petrochemicals front appears to be easing / Pilots announce strikes coinciding with start of UEFA Championship
10.06.2016
BOREALIS
Finland cracker to be expanded / Lifting propylene and butadiene output
09.06.2016
SHELL
Green light for US shale gas-fed cracker complex in Pennsylvania / Downstream units for 1.6m t/y of PE / Location close to North American plastics customers
09.06.2016
LANXESS
Leverkusen flame retardant storage facility is expanded
09.06.2016
BASF
US methane-to-propylene plant on hold / Volatile pricing hits shale gas projects
08.06.2016
SHALE GAS
Non-binding vote to ban fracking passes Scottish Parliament / Ineos “focused on England” / Crotty says Scotland will “miss out”
07.06.2016
HONEYWELL
Groundbreaking for MTO catalysts line in China / Eight MTO plants licensed as China cut reliance on oil imports
01.06.2016
FRANCE
Strikes widened to include nuclear plants / Refinery blockade hits plastics converters
27.05.2016
SK INNOVATION
New propylene dehydrogenation plant inaugurated in South Korea / Saudi and Kuwaiti partners
26.05.2016
FRANCE
Police slowly clear union barricades blocking refineries / Public mood flags / Union threatens to extend strikes to rail and nuclear plants / More force majeure declarations
25.05.2016
FRANCE
Petrochemical output increasingly threatened by strike / Most refineries affected / Many FM declarations / Minister says the country has been taken hostage
25.05.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
PE, PP, PS: Strike leads Total to declare force majeure for Gonfreville / Other sites also affected
19.05.2016
DOMO CHEMICALS
Future benzene deliveries in eastern Germany to come by pipeline / Massive investment project with partner Total Leuna
11.05.2016
BOREALIS
Naming ceremony for massive ethane carrier / US shipments to Stenungsund expected to commence in Q4
09.05.2016
UNIPETROL
Fire-damaged cracker to resume partial operation in August / Q1 profits hit by outage / Construction of new PE plant to begin in June
02.05.2016
UK CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Brexit: Leaving the EU could harm UK chemicals trade, warns industry group CIA / Survey shows 62% of chemical companies in UK want to remain in EU
02.05.2016
BRASKEM IDESA
New PE complex not affected by nearby VCM explosion
02.05.2016
BASF
Sale of polyolefin catalysts to W.R. Grace / Sharpened focus on chemical and refinery catalysts
28.04.2016
UPDATE - MEXICHEM / PEMEX
Number of fatalities from PMV blast rises to 32 / Access difficulties slow down search of Coatzacoalcos site
25.04.2016
MEXICHEM / PEMEX
Explosion at PMV joint venture leaves three dead and scores injured / 2,000 people evacuated / All operations suspended / Cause of blast remains unclear
21.04.2016
INEOS
Liquid gas purchase deal with Rex Energy / US shale-derived ethane, propane and butane
20.04.2016
PIC
Feasibility study for large propane dehydrogenation and PP production plant in Canada / Joint project with Pembina
14.04.2016
BRASKEM IDESA
First PE line starts up / Additional facilities to be brought on stream before May
11.04.2016
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